In my shopping bag

I'm back from shopping and here's what I have in my shopping bags. First from the office supply store: an assortment of plastic envelopes, two plastic document holders, a small mesh envelope and a few ID cases. From the hardware store: a pack of AAA batteries (they didn't have any rechargeable ones for my recharger), two packs of surgery/dust masks and a pair of magnetic photo pockets (70% off!). There's also my Swatch watch with its new battery. And finally a rare find in the so-called "classical" sections in local CD stores: a 2-CD set of Prokofiev's five piano concertos performed by one of my favorite pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy (I was tempted to buy the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd). So much for my short shopping list.

My "short" shopping list

I'm going shopping with my parents today and have on my shopping list just three items: rechargeable AAA batteries (for this confounded optical mouse which has drained three pairs of AAA batteries in two months), a battery replacement for my Swatch watch and a few new ID cases (to replace my current one which has cracked and gotten torn). If I had shown this short list to my sister, we would look at each other knowingly and laugh. How many times have we drawn up a short grocery list and ended buying much more after being lured by temporarily reduced prices of "necessary" items!

How do they look?

I was channel surfing earlier and came across this reality makeover show called How Do I Look? on the LifeStyle channel. In this particular episode a high-school girl about to enter college was being persuaded by her mother and sister to get rid her frumpy look (she was wearing clothes handed down to her by her grandmother). While the resulting makeover did improve her looks, I personally felt that both the mother and the sister--and perhaps even the host of the show to some degree--each needed a makeover themselves. (Since I look to the elegant simplicity of Audrey Hepburn's style as an ideal my standards are rather high.)